The VFX Festival 2018 Schedule
£37.77 – £105.93
06th February – 08th February 2018 | 09:30 – 18:00 GMT
RichMix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA
The countdown is officially on; the VFX Festival is back for 2018, celebrating the very best and brightest in the creative industry, in London.
Spanning four floors over three jam packed days, the festival will feature dedicated interactive exhibition hubs, with exhibits from leading industry talent.
The schedule will include a series of headliner talks and showcases from across the VFX, animation, games and motion graphics sectors.
Day 1 – VFX, Games and Animation Newcomers – 6th February 2018
Headliners
Framestore has worked with some of the greatest storytellers in film today. This exclusive talk on a new and upcoming ‘secret’ project, will explore how they bring this storytelling to life on the big screen. Get your wellies and your hat, this is one talk you won’t want to miss! Further detail to be announced in December, watch this space!
Creative Assembly will be presenting at the festival. Led by their passion for quality gameplay, Creative Assembly are passionate about bringing stories to life and crafting some of the most renowned gaming experiences.
Wider range of workshops and key showcases
To be announced
Day 2 – VFX, Games and Animation Enthusiasts, Graduates and Professionals – 7th February 2018
Headliners
Presenting on a ‘top-secret’ project, Framestore is an Oscar-winning creative studio, dedicated to creating extraordinary experiences and combining world-leading craft and relentless creativity with tomorrow’s technology. Watch this space to find out more when further details are announced on this headline talk in December…
Wider partners who will be featuring include
MPC’s VFX team lead worked alongside Director Ridley Scott to create more than 700 stunning shots for Alien: Covenant. As lead studio, MPC’s work included the creation of the movies terrifying creatures, alien environments, vehicles and complex FX simulation work. In the session Dan Zelcs will go into more detail about the work that went into the film to create the iconic creatures that appear in this prequel to Ridley Scott’s classic Alien series. The presentation will look at the artistic and technical challenges of bringing to life creatures including the Neomorph, a new addition that makes a debut appearance in this movie.
Cinesite is an independently-owned digital entertainment studio with a broad transmedia expertise. We are a talented, international team of people who design and deliver fun, entertaining, and innovative digital images with a proven creative approach.
We have an extensive history in developing all kinds of digital experiences across all formats, delivering entire games, through to co-development and technological problem solving and we’ve won many awards along the way.
Blue Zoo co-founder Tom Box and Director Ben Steer will be showing the studio’s latest short film “Mamoon”, created using projected CG animation onto miniature polystyrene sets. They will be speaking about how the project came about, the process by which it was made, and how their chosen medium both inspired and restricted the story and visuals.
Day 3 – VFX, Games and Animation Graduates and Professionals – 8th February 2018
Headliners
Creative Assembly will be presenting at the festival. Led by their passion for quality gameplay, Creative Assembly are passionate about bringing stories to life and crafting some of the most renowned gaming experiences.
Wider partners who will be featuring include
Director and VFX Supervisor Hugo Guerra talks about the making of the “The Walking Dead March to War”, “Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle” and “Heroes Arena” reveal trailers made by Fire Without Smoke.
Double Negative will once again be sharing behind-the-scenes insights into their incredible work at The VFX Festival 2018. Watch this space for confirmation of sessions and speakers from this multiple Academy Award winning VFX studio.
We provide a broad range of in house creative and production solutions including concept design, pre-viz, shoot supervision, 2D compositing, 3D/CG effects, animation, motion design, software development, mixed reality and experiential production, live action production and colour grading.
REWIND is a creative agency and digital production studio based in London. We are specialists in virtual reality and the creative production behind unforgettable experiential events.
The Mill is a VFX & Creative Content studio headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with three offices in the United States.
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